WOMEN’S WORLD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 308, 27 November 1936, Page 11

WOMEN’S WORLD

Mrs K. Dean, of Victoria Avenue, lias been visiting Napier. Mrs E. A. Shaw, of Newbury, is visiting Taradale for the jubilee celebrations of that district.

(By “Nanette.”)

Mrs T. It. Lees, of Russell Street,! and her daughter, Sister Lees, of the 1 Wellington Hospital, yesterday motored to Wellington. j Mrs G. G. Hancox, president of the Palmerston North branch of the League of Mothers, visited Wellington to-da.y for the provincial meeting of , the league. ~ j Miss Dorothy Peto, who is in cam- j mand of the policewomen of London, has been given permission to accept an invitation from Poland to study the , work there of women police. j Miss Hetherington, inspector of secondary schools, left for a visit to England last Tuesday. She will join the Strathnaver in Australia, to go, to Tndia for a month before going to ; England. Sho expects to be away for a year. i

Boy pupils of the woodwork classes of the Palmerston North Technical High .School are not the only participants in the display at present being held by the school. Among,.the fine array of exhibits are several pieces by a girl pupil, who is a keen student, and the samples of her work rank very highly. .On the anniversary of her recordbreaking flight last year from England to Brazil, Miss Jean Batten arrived yesterday at Wellington from the South Island. She will leave to-night by the Limited express for Auckland. Later in the summer Mies Batten hopes to make an aerial tour of New Zealand in her Percival Gull machine.

Mrs Dalgleish, who is shortly leaving Palmerston North to spend six weeks in AVellington, was guest of honour at a happy function held at the residence of Mrs R. L. C. Aitchison. Church Street, when members of the junior Red Cross committee met. At a suitable juncture, Miss Burdett. superintendent of the senior division, presented Mrs Dalgleish with a bouquet on behalf of those present, at the same time expressing the appreciation of the members for all the work Mrs Dalgleish had done ns superintendent of the junior Red Cross and their good wishes for the future. Members of St. Paul’s Methodist Church Ladies’ Guild gathered at the residence of Mrs G. H. Bycroft, Church Street, yesterday afternoon, to discuss arrangements for the annual garden jjarty to be held in December. Mrs E. C. Barnett (secretary). at whose residence the function will be held, presided in the absence of the president (Mrs Scotter) who, with Rev. A. N. Scotter, is visiting Hawke’s Bay for the Methodist Synod. Nile lilies and carnations prettily decorated the drawing-room in which the ladies met.